All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2013 // A former National Football League linebacker is facing charges for what prosecutors say was a $1.5 million scheme to defraud a Sacramento insurance company.The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that 42-year-old...
Apr 9 2013 // Although tougher laws have been passed, officials in South Carolina say metal robbers continue to plague homeowners, churches, government agencies and utilities.The Greenville News reported that thefts continue despite a...
Apr 8 2013 // A former St. Louis County insurance agent has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of fraud and theft charges, the Missouri Department of Insurance.After an investigation by the St. Louis County Police Department with the support...
Apr 8 2013 // A Norman, Okla., insurance agent has been charged with fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation insurance policies for roofing companies.Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office on April 5 filed...
Apr 4 2013 // Authorities announced that a Rockland, Mass., woman has pleaded guilty to charges she fraudulently collected insurance payments of more than $27,000.According to an announcement from Massachusetts Attorney General Martha...
Apr 2 2013 // Authorities announced Monday that a central New Jersey chiropractor was sentenced to state prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $650,000 by illegally using “runners” to recruit auto accident patients to...
Apr 1 2013 // A Washington couple received jail time and will have to reimburse the state more than $200,000 after they reportedly both filed fraudulent workers’ compensation claims in 2009.Jaime Beroth, 63, and her husband...
Apr 1 2013 // A workers’ compensation auditor and four coal company contractors in West Virginia have pleaded guilty to federal charges in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.Federal prosecutors said that Arville Sargent pleaded...
Mar 29 2013 // Louisiana State Police announced that insurance fraud detectives have arrested a Lake Charles couple for charges relating to possession of stolen vehicles worth an estimated $165,000.In October 2011, detectives received...
Mar 29 2013 // A former New Orleans police officer accused last fall of falsifying a police report to cover up an alleged hit-and-run accident in his personal car has pleaded to a lesser charge.The Times-Picayune reports 39-year-old...
Mar 29 2013 // UC Irvine has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations that the Southern California university allowed residents at its medical center to give patients anesthesia without supervision, then billed Medicare as if...
Mar 29 2013 // The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its top 10 consumer complaint categories for 2012. For the first time ever, the agency received more than two million complaints. Of the two million complaints, 18 percent...
Mar 28 2013 // An Ohio woman was sentenced on multiple counts after agents with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) captured video of her running her own clothing store while receiving workers’ comp benefits for a...
Mar 27 2013 // Florida regulators are alleging that insurer Allianz and its companies contributed to the collapse of a Florida domestic property insurer by taking out more than $20 million in assets and rendering it unable to meet its...
Mar 26 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that Boardman, Ohio, chiropractor David Esarco has been sentenced for attempted insurance fraud and attempted theft.Esarco was sentenced in the Mahoning...
Mar 25 2013 // Businesses and workers-rights advocates are fighting over a bill that would set uniform state standards for employees who say they haven’t been paid their full wages to seek compensation.The bill would require...
Mar 24 2013 // Car thefts in Massachusetts have dropped by 88 percent since the mid-1970s, when the state had the dubious distinction of being the country’s car theft capital. Insurance experts and law enforcement officials credit...
Mar 22 2013 // A Florida circuit court judge has issued a temporary injunction against certain provisions of the state’s no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) law, ruling that it is no longer a “reasonable...
Mar 20 2013 // A judge has issued an order blocking a newspaper’s request for documents about the resignation of the police chief in southeast Missouri.Perryville Police Chief Keith Tarrillion submitted his resignation last week...
Mar 20 2013 // Twenty-four percent of Americans believe it is acceptable to increase an insurance claim by a small amount to make up for deductibles they are required to pay.That is lower than the 33 percent found in 2002, according to...